Alma record. (Alma, Mich.) 1878-1928, 1887-06-03


out though he is improving slowly.
The gas filters are now piping the
new addition to the Wright House.
I. a. Miller e Co., has put III three
new show cases this week.
Dogs got into Norman Bevcrly's flock
of sheep Tuesday night and killed seven
lambs.
James A. Stuttz is grading Grant,
College, Linden and Pine avenues on
his addition to the village.
Wool growers should not fail to visit
this market before selling their wool,
prices paid this week range from p
to 81 cents.
Smith, of st. Lonis Republican, opened
mp his "slush bucket" on Alma again
this week, and ground out several
verses of fiction. If we were not real
we'll acquainted with Smith and his
methods and didn't know his ungov-
erned propensity for telling cold-blooded
lies, we should feel real bad over his
continued railings at Alma and her
prosperity. You do right, Bro. Smith
in booming yonr own town, but you
can t make it work by lying about your
neighbors. If your "city" is so glori-
ously prosperous, and Alma, as you
claim it to be. SO rapidly retrograding,
why is it that you have been over here
several times since YOU have resided in
| st. Louis, TO see about starting another
paper here? You didn't get any en-
couragement, and the judgement of all
candid and uninterested persons is that
your puerile fings at Alma are a clear
case of "sour grapes
We hear that the subscription paper
to raise funds for celebration July 18th
is not being very well patronized, and
unless business men brace up and come
down with their dollars more literally
the celebration is going to fall through.
This should not be allowed. If sutii-
cicnt money is raised to have a first-class
celebration, it will be a great many dol
lars in the pockets of these very men
who are subscribing two, three and five
dollars where it should be fifteen and
! twenty-five. \ iirSt-class celebration
will bring, at very moderate calcula-
ton, 5000 people to Alma. At a very
low estimate they will spend - cent:
each while here, or in the aggregate
500, and it is more apt to be =, 900
alton the amount OF advertising the
celebration will give the town, whicl
cannot be estimated. Ii we have no eel
ebration il is safe TO say that 800 people
viii leaye town to participate in celebra
ting elsewhere and it will take more
than 81 600 to pay their expenses for The
day. BY having a celebration here this
money will be kept at home; $1,000 vii
be brought here that would 90 elsewhere
should we have no celebration, and vii
sustain the prestige Alma now enjoy!
of being the most enterprising town il
Northern Michigan. Bear these fact,
in mind, gentlemen, and don't bc
CLAIMS.
An Adjourned meeting Of the boarC
of directors of the Alma Building am
Loan Association was held at the En-
CINE House .on Wednesday evening
Francis Palmer was elected attorne,
for the Association for one year. Til,
secretary reported that a report of In,
proceedings to date, including a cop,
Of The by laws, had that day been com
pleted and sent to the secretary o
State. that he had ordered five hundre,
stock certificates and one thouSan,
circulars, setting forth the object an
plan Of the Association; that he ha'
received the seal Of the Association
and as soon as the charter was receives
stock could be issued. In the meal
time the secretary and treasurer vii
file bonds in the sum Of one thousan,
dollars each. Some discussion wa
had as to what compensation the see
retary should receive for his services
One Of the directors thought it woul
: bc well to pay that officer percentag
Oh each share per month, and suggest
eel one cent per each share per month
Il was concluded however, to leav
this for future action. This is the onl
: officer that the by laws provide shal
. bc paid a salary. This Association
. to be Mutual Savings Society, to en
. able its members to acquire homesteads
and borrow money on village security
= Members can loan money from the as
T. sociation TO build homes ana pay 70
, the same in monthly installments whic
will only equal fair rent. 1t offers
safe investment, because loans ar
: made to members only. on first elias
e real estate security or on the stock O
e the Association to the withdrawa
, value of said stock; and we guarantc